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RFC 1831 - 6. AUTHENTICATION

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### 6. AUTHENTICATION

The RPC protocol provides the fields necessary for a client to identify itself to a service, and vice-versa, in each call and reply message. Security and access control mechanisms can be built on top of this message authentication. Several different authentication protocols can be supported. A field in the RPC header indicates which protocol is being used. More information on specific authentication protocols is in section 9: "Authentication Protocols".

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RFC 1831 - 6. AUTHENTICATION